摘要：This study is a collection of papers presented at the Regional Science Symposium held at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) in September 1977. The central purpose of the work is to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive view of spatial economic inequalities and regional development problems. Following an introductory chapter written by the editors, the work is organized into two major sections. The first part deals with analytical studies of spatial inequality and regional development, whereas the second focuses on the evaluation and formulation of specifie regional development policies. lnChapter One, Folmer and Oosterhaven propose a comprehensive model primarily oriented to the formulation of regional development policies. Contrary to the idea of "unity" endorsed in the introduction, the model is composed of four major subsystems (demographic, sociocultural, economic and ecological) which are individually analyzed. Thus, regional development policies might be drawn from the comparison of the profiles of the various subsystems which, on the whole, would constitute the regional social system.
